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resident around Ottawa. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) Very com- 

 mon everywhere in eastern Ontario. {Rev. C. J. Young.) Common 

 about the settlements in Parry Sound and Muskoka districts. A 

 few have wintered at Gravenhurst. (/. H. Fleming.) Abundant 

 in the Algonquin Park, Ont. Three nests in sight of the buildings 

 at C&che Lake, 1900. {Spreadborough.) Abundant in the vicinity 

 of London, Ont. The crop of wild berries has niuch to do with 

 the occasional notes of the occurrence of this species in winter; 

 that a few winter in some years is certain. While they nest usually 

 in trees, I found one on the projecting end of a rail of a snake- 

 fence and have seen numbers on buildings ; and once saw one 

 building a nest in a brush-Tieap. {W.E.Saunders.) An abundant 

 summer resident at Guelph, Ont. Arrives about March 8th, and 

 leaves about November 12th. {A. B. Klugk.) Found throughout 

 the region traversed, but seldom seen elsewhere than in the 

 vicinity of the posts, where, however, they were very common. 

 Many old and young were seen at Fort Churchill during the latter 

 part of July. On our return trip we noted the species on Hayes 

 River, August 30th, Steel River, August 31st, Hill River, Sept. 4th 

 and between Oxford and Windy lakes, Sept. 12th. {E.A.Preble.) 

 Common at York Factory, Hudson Bay. {Dr. R. Bell.) Fort Churc- 

 hill, Hudson Bay. {Wright.) 



Found in abundance at Pembina where it was breeding in the 

 wooded river-bottom. In this latitude, the eggs are generally laid 

 during the middle and latter part of June, and I scarcely think 

 that more than one brood is reared annually. It extends from 

 Pembina to the Rocky Mountains on the 49th parallel. {Coues.) 

 A common resident in ^half-open woods and around dwellings 

 throughout Manitoba. {Thompson-Seton.) An abundant summer 

 resident at Aweme, Manitoba; arrives about April loth and leaves 

 towards the end of October. {Norman Criddle.) An abundant sum- 

 mer resident at Indian Head, Assa., first seen April 13th, 1892, and 

 became common by the i8th of the same month; first seen at Medi- 

 cine Hat, Assa., April nth, 1894, building by the i6th May, first 

 eggs May 22nd; a common summer resident throughout the whole 

 district of Medicine Hat, Crane Lake, Swift Current Creek and 

 the Cypress Hills; in 1895 this species was found scattered over 

 the whole of southern Assiniboia and Alberta wherever there was 

 brush; it is essentially a bird of civilization and is constantly 

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